Information and Support
Faculty Ombuds Office
Provides consultation & mediation services to UNM faculty & administrators for potential or ongoing workplace conflicts. The Faculty Ombuds offers confidential, informal, independent, and neutral services to any and all parties to a dispute, as well as training and support for UNM faculty who engage in ongoing constructive conflict management.
- Your communications/visits remain confidential, even to the UNM administration;
- Visitors to the Faculty Ombuds space will be offered confidential consultation about their concerns, referrals to other UNM services/offices, and the option to engage in informal mediation with the individual with whom they are in conflict.
- This office supports entirely informal dispute resolution, and does not engage in investigation, advocacy, or sanction of parties to a dispute.
Chair or Director
Your Chair or Director may advocate on your behalf or help you resolve the conflict informally, but they are also required to report certain incidents and may also have responsibility toward the offending colleague or student.
Chairs or Directors also play an important role in resolving bullying disputes – whether formally or informally -- via the University’s Respectful Campus policies. If you wish to report bullying by another staff member, contact the offending colleague’s supervisor; if the bullying is carried out by faculty, contact the faculty member’s chair.
- The Chair or Director may be able to refer you to helpful campus and community resources;
- Your Chair or Director may recommend remedies to help manage the situation, including voluntary mediation and changes to work schedule or environment.
- If you choose to formally report bullying, your Chair or Director may seek informal resolution or disciplinary action if the offending party reports to the same supervisor;
- As in any situation where you share information with someone other than a confidential resource, the offending party(ies) may seek retaliation, which is prohibited under university policy but can occur.
Confidential Advocates
The Women's and the LGBTQ Resource Centers are staffed by trained and confidential Advocates, who offer referrals and some continuing support for faculty and staff of any gender who have experienced harassment based on their sexuality and/or gender identity.
- Advocates trained in trauma-informed care will listen to what happened and offer relevant and confidential supportive services;
- Advocates can help visitors identify and navigate formal reporting options, and may be able to accompany you to appointments or meetings to deal with your experience.
- Because your communications with Advocates are confidential and the Resource Centers do not document your visit, no further actions are triggered by conferring with a confidential Advocate.
Counseling, Assistance and Referral Services (CARS)
CARS provides on-site and remote? services to assist UNM faculty and staff members with professional and personal concerns. Relationship difficulties, anxiety, stress and job burnout, depression, eldercare, coworker conflicts, alcohol or other drug abuse, managing change, grief and loss issues and preparing for retirement are just a few of the issues CARS can address.
- Crisis intervention during work hours.
- Regular appointments to treat a wide range of staff and faculty concerns from a therapeutic perspective.
- When warranted, CARS may arrange for departmental workshops or in-service trainings.
Other mental health services, both at UNM and in the community, may be found at https://mentalhealth.unm.edu/
Report
Office of Compliance, Ethics, & Equal Opportunity (CEEO)
The Office of Compliance, Ethics & Equal Opportunity (CEEO) investigates reports of discrimination and harassment. CEEO ensures compliance with all University policies that uphold the rights of protected status (religion, age, gender identity, race, disability, etc.). The office also protects equal rights to programs and activities of the University under Title IX.
- You may choose to file an anonymous report with CEEO.
- You may not learn the outcome of a particular complaint, depending on your role in the CEEO process.
- CEEO staff you speak with will explain how they will handle your report, so that you can decide whether and how you wish to move forward with a complaint. They will discuss informal and formal complaints, available accommodations, supportive measures, and the university’s anti-retaliation policy.
- CEEO staff will also refer you to available campus and community resources for support and advocacy.
- CEEO does not advocate for anyone involved a complaint, make policy findings about alleged discrimination or harassment, or sanction those found to have violated University policies.
- You may be contacted byCEEO for more information about the incident, or to serve as a witness in an ongoing investigation. Your participation in this process is optional and voluntary.
- When you provide CEEO with information about a possible policy violation, the office may start an investigation without your participation or consent.
- Even if you do not file a formal complaint, CEEO may invite individuals alleged to have engaged in misconduct to take part in an “informal resolution.” This meeting is designedto prevent recurrence of the behavior in question.
- CEEO shares information with University officials and participants to a complaint as required by law and/or “the obligation to protect the rights/safety of others.”
EthicsPoint Hotline
EthicsPoint is a third-party hotline and website through which any member of the campus community can report any suspected misconduct at the university. The UNM Compliance Office uses this information to initiate investigations and generate data on policy violations at UNM. You may use EthicsPoint to submit either an anonymous or identified report to the University.
- The University may choose to start an investigation per the relevant policy.
- If you provide your name, someone from the University may contact you for more information about the incident. They may also ask you to serve as a witness in an ongoing investigation.
- If you choose to remain anonymous, you will not be contacted unless you file your report with another campus office. However, be aware that your report to the EthicsPoint Hotline may trigger a University investigation of the campus unit where the incident occurred.
- CEEO will use the information you provide to identify individuals and units that have engaged in repeated misconduct.
- You may learn about actions the University has taken in response to your anonymous report by logging back in to the EthicsPoint website.
UNM Police Department
You may report violence or threat of violence that puts you or someone else in imminent danger, as well as non-emergency situations, to the UNM Police Department
- For emergencies, call UNM Police by dialing 911 or using a blue emergency phone. You may report non-emergency situations by calling (505) 277-2241.
- You may also make confidential and/or anonymous reports to Crime Stoppers by calling (505) 277-STOP or on the UNM Police Department’s Submit an Anonymous Tip or Incident webpage. [may have changed to LoboGuardian app?
